Even in Tantilla’s most tuneful, approachable and pop-oriented tune, “Sun Gone Down,” there’s a little darkness around on the edges of accessibility. Nightmarish allusions to hellhounds, a “dirty yellow sky,” frigid winds, and a lonesome and shadowy road easily yield to depictions about “Standing in the graveyard lit up by the moon / Beside your empty tomb I'll see you…”

The scathing “I Want Answers” retains a relatively understated title — the strident and infuriated insistence with which Harvey is singing makes it clear that he really demands a response, and right now.

Penitent sinners on the road to salvation
With a dollar in the coffer and some pious resignation
I don’t understand
Great works of great men to whom we are indebted
Man does the work but God gets the credit
I don’t understand
Am I a foolish man?
A cold moon shines down on every man

Somewhere is there someone who knows
Will the rattle of bones be upon me?
Someday at the end of my life
Will a ray of light be shining on me?
I want answers...

Tragically, the end of Bryan Harvey’s life was to come much too soon, on January 1, 2006, when he was found by Johnny Hott murdered — beaten, slashed and bound with electrical cord and tape in the basement of his burning house — as was his wife and two young daughters.

All were victims of two thieves on a crime spree that also claimed the lives of three other Richmond residents. One defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, while the other, in a more just verdict, got the death penalty. 

And that cold moon shines…